You decide you’re ready to try out that new fangled game that everyone is talking about. Mad Chickens, or something. You search, click, read some comments, click install. Before anything is installed to the phone you are greeted with a list of things this particular application has access to on your device [...]

Hot on the heels of the SyFy.com block, and now joining the other three networks; Fox has joined the .com block for Google TV, where previously they were only teetering on the idea. Quite disappointing, but hopefully it will light a match under Google’s butt to get some sort of resolution that benefits all [...]

Most of the world’s major news outlets have made their way to Android, but the Wall Street Journal was missing from that list, for some reason. It seems they were waiting on a device worthy of carrying their digital newspaper, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab is the first device to receive that honor.
“Our strategy is [...]

Sometime within the next 20 or so days, Sprint will be flipping their 4G switch for Los Angeles subscribers. This follows a lengthy period of testing not unlike what New York went through before getting their 4G love (and what San Francisco is currently going through leading up to their inevitable launch.)

It’s harder to get [...]

Yesterday, we learned Del started selling the Dell Streak exclusively for Rogers customers –  just as it had been rumored – but we didn’t see Rogers offering the 5-inch device subsidized as we’d also heard. Today, they’ve gone ahead and announced their plans to offer it for $149.99 on three year voice and data plans. [...]

Another milestone has been hit for Android gaming: a new 3D MMORPG for the  OS called Pocket Legends is now available. This game has been in closed beta status for quite some time, but it’s finally being pushed out to the general public so that we can take a look at it. The 30MB download [...]

Even though some of you on actual Android devices are still trying to get stepped up to 2.2 (and 2.1, for that matter) it gets even easier for iPhone users. Bootlace 2.1 is an app for jailbroken iPhones which will allow you to install iPhoDroid – the name of the Android port – without doing [...]

Despite the fact that the new and unfamiliar input mechanism for Android – 8pen – got anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 downloads in the market at $1.58, they’ve gone ahead and made the app free for all to download. With that came a nice 1.1 update which carries the following changes:

Auto-space is now optional, and [...]

AVG’s looking to take on stiff competition in the Android market, it seems, as they’ve announced their acquisition of DroidSecurity – the makers behind the app “Antivirus” in the Android market. For those who don’t know, AVG provides an antivirus solution of their own for the desktop market and has been held in high regards [...]

The T-Mobile G2 has finally received its permanent root after weeks of frustration and workarounds, but it wasn’t so hard to get going on the MyTouch 4G. We’re hearing that the method for rooting is the same as the G2’s and the Desire Z/HD’s, so if you were comfortable with that and have no problem [...]

It’s been rumored that Samsung was preparing a 10-inch version of the Galaxy Tab before, but no evidence has yet to show itself confirming as much. While we do still believe Samsung has a 10-inch Galaxy Tab in the works to compete on a more level playing field with the iPad, we’ll still have to [...]

We’re just going to go ahead and guess that Verizon’s not going to formally announce this thing. (And they shouldn’t need to, really. It’s still just a Droid 2 with slightly better internals.) As it shoos the original Droid 2 off of the shelves with pre-orders being taken right now, the Droid 2 Global has [...]

[Update]: Disregard everything I’ve said below. You can not get this update over the air, but Android 2.1 is still available. (Sorry for the confusion, guys. I don’t keep up with the version numbers for this phone.) Thankfully, you guys are quick to spot our inaccuracies and one of you have tipped us with an [...]

The LG Optimus S might be fresh out of the box, but the Korean manufacturer isn’t taking any time to get its source code to developers. Often manufacturers may delay the code by a few weeks or even months, but anyone who wants to tinker around with the Optimus S code is free to do [...]

Yahoo has dropped some pretty major updates to their Android apps bringing them up to speed with their iOS services and adding in some much needed innovations and improvements to Messenger and Mail. The thing most will talk about is the addition of video chat support, though it is currently only available in a limited [...]

Things are heating up around the Adroid-o-shpere for the holidays: big handset launches including the Samsung Continuum and Motorola Droid Pro, the Galaxy Tab landing at its first US carrier, and Gingerbread right around the corner. All of that and more will be touched upon on today’s PhanCast that you can tune into live today [...]

What do you get when you mix old versions of Android with barely there hardware? About 90 percent of the current tablets running on Google’s OS. For every Samsung Galaxy Tab — a good tablet with a lot of room for improvement — you have about ten Sylvania “7-inch MID” tablets. Android 2.1, 512MB of [...]

The NEC LifeTouch tablet hasn’t been in the news much lately, but the slate once slated for an October release has now received some semblance of a launch date. “Some time this month” is about all we get, as the company has shifted the focus of their tablet from the everyday user to the business [...]

Motorola has just announced the availability of the Citrus, an entry-level Android handset for Verizon Wireless. The phone will go on sale tomorrow at the low price of $49.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate on a two-year contract. The Motorola Citrus runs Android 2.1 and comes loaded with Bing services inside an eco-friendly casing made [...]

If you have a Nexus One and use it to access T-Mobile’s network, your days of relying on a shoddy wireless signal are over. The new Wi-Fi calling functionality recently made available has been hacked into the Google-branded handset to allow great reception wherever a wireless router is set up. Of course, you will need [...]